Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-05-16
O'BRIEN IN MONTREAL.
he Attends High Mass in the Morning
and Address the National Land League
in the Afternoon.
MONTREAL. Nav l5

noNfAEAL, May 10.
Editor VIM. OBrien went TO high mass a,
ST Patricks church today in company with
d. Barry, president of ST. Patrick's Society.
aud j. Lane and II. b. Claran, officers Of
the local league. There was an immense
congregation and when he left the church he
was surrounded by crowds who fairly took
his breath away in efforts to embrace him a.
well as to shake hands with him
In the afternoon he attended the national
league meeting at ST. Patrick's Hall which
was crowded. O'Brien was received with
tremendous enthusiasm "We have" he said
''csrried public opinion so far and have con.
vinced every fair man that Lsnsdow ne is living
under the accusation of the most fearful
gravity, cruelty and inhnmanity that i'm
peratlvey demands an answer, otherwis.
Lansdowue is disentitled to De ruler of free
people Let him answer us now ap-
piauseI and not stab US in the
back when we return to Ireland.
If he relies for defence on the sectarian AMI.
mostly of Orangemen, that he can scarcely
escape or hope to escape the censure and
condemnation of every man who values free
speech, detests rowdyism and intolerance,
loud applausel | should De sorry to antici-
pate what is going to happen iu the Prov
inces of Quebec. The London Times is try
ing to stir up strife as itjthrust the poisoned
dagger of slander at Parnell by a forged let
ter. Kisses. However we are going to
Toronto renewed applause tonight or to
morrow, not to insult or defy any section of
the Canadian people but to tell of the vic
Tins of Lansdowne's tyraunical oppression
We are not going to be intimidated by threat,
Of foolish persons who refuse to listen to us"
Ernest DE Roster a prominent French Can
adsn also spoke. "If England treated US
Canadians through her representative Lsns.
downe," he said, "as bBd as Lord Lansdowne
treats his Irish tenants, our loyalty would be
put to severe strain"
O'Brien was then driven to the Young
Irishmen's Literary Association, where a re-
ception was held and where he made another
speech, as did also Tenant Klbride. The
spec ches were followed by another round of
hsnd-shaking. O'Brien, during the course
of his speech, said When England was
banishing lrishmen she said they had gone
with vengeance; but the boasted expression
has come back upon them with a vengeance,
and now, although cur race is scattered, it is
almost omnipOtent; and today Charles Stew
art Parnell is not alone the ruler of Ireland,
but ruler of the British Empire as we'll.
AS O'Bren entered and emerged from
each place immense crowds surged around
the carriages and even followed several
blocks
The next visit, the most interesting of the
day. was to Point ST. Charles, where big
store stands within an enclosure with the fol-
lowing inscription: "To preserve from des
ecration the remains of six thousand emf
grants who died of ship fever in 1873"
They were all Irish. As O'Brien beheld the
sight he took off his hat reverently. and turn
ing his eyes toward Heaven, exclaimed, may
the Lord have mercy on them" Turning to
the reporters he said. "Great God, six thou
sand Irish lives sacrificed to the greed of
Irish landlordism. Wouldn't the same fate
befall Lansdowne's tenants only for the Ma
tionsl league and the organization of the
Irish people?"